Protecting Word Document

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Chad Guiney

I am creating a new user request form in Word and I am inserting text boxes
that I want the managers to type information in such as the new users name
and department. How can I protect those text boxes so that when they are
typing in them they dont get accidently deleted or resized? and I would also
like to protect the rest of the document so that they can only type
information in those text boxes and not change anything else? Thanks in
advance
 
D

DatabaseBen

if i recall when
you do a save or save as there
are additional options available on that
dialog window, maybe a button or
something...
 
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LVTravel

If you create a form, you have to click on Tools, Protect Document and
make the selection for forms work. That will invoke your fill-in fields to
keep them from being rearranged. It locks the form for any entry except
what you allow. Once created the way you want password protect the form.

When I create forms like this, I don't password protect the form until it
works as I expect it to work. Once finished, unprotect and then reprotect
with the final password. This saves the problem of having to type the
password each time I need to change something during the creation.

Word actually has a good help section on this. Start Help and type "Create
forms that users complete" in the search box. A lot of reading to identify
the various types of fields but once you know the basics it is really easy
to create a complicated fill-in form. Each version of Word has a little
different help but works basically the same.
 
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